St. Paul daily globe., 1887-11-11


,rnOr, but the general feeling was that
While he would yield to his merciful
tendency and desire so far as to COM
mute the punishment of Fielden. who
was the most blatant talker of them all,
and of Schwab, who was, to be sure,
nothing but an echo of Spies. who was
chief editor of the paper on which he
was subordinate. The others, five in
number, counting Lingg as one, would
be hung tomorrow not later than ~
o'clock. 1t is not at all improbable or
unreasonable to suppose that
O Some Quiet Hint
was given to the sheriff. 1t surely
would not have been fair to him, physic
ally considered only, to notify him to-
night that he must hang these people
tomorrow, and it would SAVIOR somewhat
of perfunctory impertinence if he were
to go on with his preparations for an
execution tomorrow if the governor had
concluded to commute the sentence of
them all, so it was generally thought
that the four men would be hanged to-
morrow, and that the two, Fielden and
Schwab, would be relegated to
the penitentiary for life, which of course
means an ultimate pardon, and at no
later date than that when the Socialistic
clement in the state shall have shown
itself strong enough, numerically strong
enough, to be worth the attention of
time-serving politicians. Spies and
Fischer and Parsons and Engel were
carefully searched. Their clothing was
taken from them and submitted to clos
est scrutiny, and new suits made by
order of the sheriff were put upon them.
These clothes had been in readiness
several days, and were to have been put
upon them today anyhow. They were
changed again to other cells this after
noon, and it is not at all improbable that
between this writing and the hour ap-
pointed for their execution they will be
moved from point to point, so that their
possible suicidal intent will be that much
baked, in any event. But. after all,
the point remains that Lingg, i'll whose
cell was found four bombs only sixty
hours ago, who was taken out and
Stripped Literally
and put into clothes that he never saw
before, and who has had no cOmmunica-
ton with any person outside the jail or
with any visitor whatever save that he
was permitted to speak across the space
some twelve feet in width, i'll some way
or other managed to conceal not only
the explosive matter with which he
mutilated and destroyed himself, but
enough besides to upset and OvertuIn
the entire institution. The sheriff'S
idea is somewhat similar to that which
expressed above, that the material was
concealed somewhere about his person.
But to the question, why wasn't his per-
son searched as well as lis clothes?
There can of course be no satisfactory
response. But Lingg settled all this
speculation by silence, and as his III
voluntary groans or gurgles orwhatever
they were-they could not be called
grOanS, because he had no mouth to
groan with, and they had more sOun-
dific volume than a gurgle has-grew
weaker and weaker, and his
pulse fell lower and lower,
commissions set in, agOniZing vibration
stirred his frame from end to end and
instead of psssing beyond the line to
join the great majority peacefully and
quietly as he might have done, he ex-
perienced some such agyny as the men
he murdered in May, 1885, experienced.
and knew in his own existence ther hor-
rOrs and the infamieS prOducible by the
explosives. in the making and cOmbina-
ton of which he was so Skillful an eX-
pert, Pity for Lingg as an entity! oh
no! Pity for the poor sufferer
Covered With His Own Blood,
struggling unvOluntarily, but struggling
all the same, Tracked with agony, every
nerve strung to its utmost tension by
the fierceneSs of pain, whose ferOcity
cannot be described! Yes. The Ques-
ton tonight is, what shall be done with
him? He has no relations i'll his cOun-
try that are known. no friends of special
nearness. The young woman who has
somewhat fiippantly been spoken of as
Lingg'S sweetheart was not so in any
inside sense of the term. She was an
acquaintance and propably near if not
dear friend, but it would hardly
seem within the limits of
propriety to turn her mangled
body into her hands. Shall the county
bury him? If so, when and where?
Trite as this suggestion may seem, and
easy of solution as the propblem may be
to people who have nothing to do with
il, tonight it is very significant en-
barrassment and a problem most hard
for the officials to solve. 1t is no pleas
ant thing to retain the body of that
man in the jail precincts tonight. 1t is
no easy matter to remove it unknown to
thousands of people who are watching
to know precisely what will be done.
And this brings up this whole question
of a public demonstration on Sunday.
There is no known law to prevent it, is
there? The law does permit the mayor
to regulate paradeS the same as it does
in New York and all great cities. He
can say there shall be no professional
parade on this OF on any other day, if
he deems it in the interest of public
peace. That is, there shall be no great
professional parade with banners, with
flags, with music, and with all the per-
fundary addenda and adiuncts of
demonstration. But in would be
A Queer Idea
in this land of the brave and home of
the free if mans friends cannot attend
his funeral, and if ten of them have the
right. ten thousand of them have the
right, and so on, ad libitum, and that is
the precise situation tonight. The
authorities of the city face that proba-
BILE emergency on Sunday, a tremend-
GUS demonstration, and it is much
more perpleXing problem for the con-
stituted authorities here than the mere
execution of four condemned men.
The mayor is all the more embarrassed
in considering the question of Sundays
G.....ax..l H. af tho